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Chapter 21
| Isai | NETtext | 21:1 | Here is a message about the Desert by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the desert, from a land that is feared. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:2 | I have received a distressing message: "The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!" | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:3 | For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:4 | My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:5 | Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields! | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:6 | For this is what the sovereign master has told me: "Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:7 | When he sees chariots, teams of horses, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, very alert." | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:8 | Then the guard cries out: "On the watchtower, O sovereign master, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:9 | Look what's coming! A charioteer, a team of horses." When questioned, he replies, "Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!" | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:10 | O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, what I have heard from the LORD who commands armies, the God of Israel, I have reported to you. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:11 | Here is a message about Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, "Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?" | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:12 | The watchman replies, "Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again." | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:13 | Here is a message about Arabia: In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night, you Dedanite caravans. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:14 | Bring out some water for the thirsty. You who live in the land of Tema, bring some food for the fugitives. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:15 | For they flee from the swords - from the drawn sword and from the battle-ready bow and from the severity of the battle. | |
| Isai | NETtext | 21:16 | For this is what the sovereign master has told me: "Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end. | |